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Kansas City Ruby: What’s New in Ruby – February 2012

Wes — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:36:55 +0000

At the beginning of each Kansas City Ruby meeting, I do a quick presentation on some new neat things from the last month in Ruby news.

What’s New In Ruby

February 2012

Ruby on Rails 3.2 released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/

Faster development mode
End of Ruby 1.8.7
```
puts Person.active.limit(5).explain
```
Automatically shows when > half a second
TaggedLogger

ActiveRecord Store

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  store :settings, accessors: [ :color, :homepage ]
end

u = User.new(color: 'black', homepage: '37signals.com')
u.color # Accessor stored attribute

  # Any attribute, even if not specified with an accessor
u.settings[:country] = 'Denmark'

RubyMine 4.0 released

http://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2012/02/rubymine-4-is-here-to-make-you-feel-the-productivity/

RubyMine is a popular Ruby and Rails IDE by JetBrains (the folks behind IntelliJ IDEA).

A focus has been put on improving its performance and UI, but it now also supports all of Rails 3.2 features, including CoffeeScript compilation right from the IDE.

Spree 1.0 Released

http://spreecommerce.com/

Spree is almost certainly the most popular, fully featured Rails-based e-commerce system and its creators are proud to announce the release of version 1.0.0.

Strano

https://github.com/joelmoss/strano
The Github backed Capistrano deployment management UI.

Guard::RSpectacle

https://github.com/netzpirat/guard-rspectacle
Guard::RSpectacle automatically tests your application with RSpec when files are modified.

Lightning Talks

Samuel Mullen: using search provider shortcuts in Google Chrome, blog post
Jaime Bellmyer: searching with leap2
Advanced REST Client: help view API responses with Chrome app link

Kansas City Ruby Users: Luke Pillow on Jeweler

Wes — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:56:29 +0000

Luke Pillow present to the Kansas City Ruby Users Group on Jeweler and Gemcutter rubygems.org.

Also, Luke is helping to organize the Ruby Midwest conference, so you should check that out.

Kansas City Ruby Users Group | March 2010 | Luke Pillow | Jeweler for Rubygems | kcrug.org from Wes Garrison on Vimeo.

Kansas City Ruby Users: Ryan Smith on Heroku

Wes — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:11:04 +0000

Ryan Smith presents to the Kansas City Ruby Users Group on Heroku: why it’s wonderful for deploying Ruby on Rails applications, how to set up a new application and deploy it to Heroku in minutes, and how to use Heroku add-ons to support search.

Kansas City Ruby Users Group | March 2010 | Ryan Smith | Heroku | kcrug.org from Wes Garrison on Vimeo.

Kansas City Ruby User Group: Kyle J Ginavan on Progressive Enhancement

Wes — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:30:59 +0000

Presentation: Kyle Ginivan on Progressive Enhancement

Progressive enhancement is a strategy for web design that emphasizes accessibility, semantic markup, and external stylesheet and scripting technologies. Progressive enhancement uses web technologies in a layered fashion that allows everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a web page, using any browser or Internet connection, while also providing those with better bandwidth or more advanced browser software an enhanced version of the page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

Kansas City Ruby Users Group | February 2010 | Kyle J. Ginavan | Progressive Enhancement | kcrug.org from Wes Garrison on Vimeo.

Resources:

Nicole Sullivan on Object Oriented CSS

Kansas City Ruby User Group: Shashank Date on Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas

Wes — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:29:06 +0000

Kansas City Ruby Users Group | February 2010 | Kyle J. Ginavan | Progressive Enhancement | kcrug.org from Wes Garrison on Vimeo.